Your Name: Lindsey Nelson 2A Parents: Zeus, and Dione God/Goddess of: Desire, Love ,Fertility, Vegetation, Sea and Beauty Significant Children: Eros (God of Love), Rhodos (sea nymph), and Aeneas ( leader of the Dardanians in the Trojan war) Summarize an interesting story from mythology that your god is a part of: Aphrodite's Birth... Cronus was castrated by Uranus. Cronus's part was thrown into a sea. The sea began to foam and Aphrodite rose on a large sea-shell. The shell was carried to land where Aphrodite was taken care of by nymphs. The nymphs dressed Aphrodite with flowers, clothes, and gold jewelry.(as shown in picture below) Aphrodite was born!!!
Aphrodite
Your Name: Lindsey Nelson 2A
Parents: Zeus, and Dione
God/Goddess of: Desire, Love ,Fertility, Vegetation, Sea and Beauty
Significant Children: Eros (God of Love), Rhodos (sea nymph), and Aeneas ( leader of the Dardanians in the Trojan war)
Summarize an interesting story from mythology that your god is a part of: Aphrodite's Birth...
Cronus was castrated by Uranus. Cronus's part was thrown into a sea. The sea began to foam and Aphrodite rose on a large sea-shell. The shell was carried to land where Aphrodite was taken care of by nymphs. The nymphs dressed Aphrodite with flowers, clothes, and gold jewelry.(as shown in picture below) Aphrodite was born!!!
Sources:
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/parisaphrodite/aphrodite.html
http://images.elfwood.com/art/e/v/everose/aphrodite.jpg
http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/R/Rhodos.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Aeneas.html
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/lombardiaphrodite/aphrodite.html
http://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Aphrodite.html